X post by Susan Crabtree
EXCLUSIVE and BREAKING: THE SECRET SERVICE HAS BEGUN TO CLEAN HOUSE:
On incoming Secret Service Director Sean Curran’s first day in the new role, 5-10 senior leadership officials, including former Director Ron Rowe, were warned that they would either be fired, moved, or pressed into retirement, according to three sources in the Secret Service community.
As of this morning, Rowe hadn’t packed up his office, as an official previously asked him to do, two sources tell RealClearPolitics. (It has been known since last week Thursday that Trump was planning to tap Curran — Donald Trump Jr. tweeted his enthusiastic support on Friday morning.)
Curran is getting inundated with information on which top officials on the 8th floor of headquarters to oust or replace. I’m hearing quite a few names of top officials on the removal wishlist, as well as names of those Curran or other members of his new leadership team already informed that their leadership services are no longer needed.
One constant refrain is that Chief Operating Officer Cynthia Sjoberg Radway needs. to be removed STAT. Radway was incredibly close to former Secret Service Director Kimberly Cheatle, who resigned under pressure from Congress after the assassination attempt in Butler. In fact, Radway became good friends with Cheatle during a previous stint working for the agency. When Cheatle became director, she brought her back to work more directly for her in the COO role and gave her a bonus to do so, according to multiple sources. The fear is that Radway, if allowed to stay, will continue to serve as a pipeline of information back to Cheatle. She also has crossed many agents Curran respects.
“She will be a major roadblock to positive progress,” if allowed to stay, one source in the Secret Service community told RCP.
‼️‼️‼️One of the biggest complaints I’m hearing – and this is a big development — is that several top officials targeted for ousting didn’t tell Curran or ANYONE ON THE GROUND involved in security planning for the Butler rally about the threats against Trump pre-J13. Those officials are: Cheatle, Rowe, and David Torres, the assistant director of Strategic Intelligence and Information, according to two sources with first-hand knowledge, according to a well-placed source in the Secret Service community.
This is incredibly important because previously, members of Congress, myself, other reporters believed the Trump campaign detail, headed by Curran, had been briefed about the threats Trump faced, while the Pittsburgh Field Office, which also was responsible for some of the failures in Butler, was kept in the dark. If the Trump detail and Pittsburgh Field Office had been informed, both may have upped their game and ensured better layers of scrutiny for the security plan and execution.
Here is a “Thelma & Louise”-style poster that was hanging in former Secret Service Director Kimberly Cheatle’s office before she was forced to step down under pressure from Congress after the Butler assassination attempt against now-President Trump.
The post depicts Cheatle and her good friend, Chief Operating Officer Cynthia Sjoberg Radway, who many believe should be ousted for her close ties to Cheatle and for supporting Cheatle’s leadership and gross mismanagement, which resulted in two assassination attempts against Trump. Top on the list of Cheatle’s failures was her direct role in continuing to deny now-incoming Secret Service Director Sean Curran’s repeated requests for more additional security assets for Trump over the course of two years. As mentioned above, multiple Secret Service agents are warning Curran to fire or replace Radway asap or risk having her attempt to sabotage his reforms.
Cheatle, who didn’t hide her contempt for Trump from other agents, followed the nonsensical and outmoded USSS protocol of treating Trump as a former president, such as Bill Ciinton and Barack Obama, who does not receive top security assets, such as counter snipers and counter-surveillance units — even though Curran repeatedly asked for them. Trump, the most controversial and well-known figure in modern politics, was attracting tens of thousands of people at his outdoor rallies.
Until the FBI briefed USSS leadership on an acute Iranian threat against Trump preceding the Butler rally, Cheatle and other top USSS denied the extra security assets to Trump for his outdoor rallies.
Hey…. Fauci could hire Cheatle to lead his security detail, since Trump pulled his taxpayer-funded protection. Surely she’s fully competent enough to keep him as safe as she kept Trump.